Under common A-F grading systems, teachers factor both academic achievement and noncognitive factors, such as extra credit ...

Some schools are responding to the fact that only a few students are motivated by class rank by reworking how they order ...

Districts have been shifting grading to strictly assess student learning without add-ons such as extra credit.

Ideally, a grade should “accurately reflect a student’s current understanding of the course content, free from biases,” ...

Teachers weigh multiple factors, including subjective perceptions, when selecting grades, beyond just assignments and test ...

But the seeming simplicity of these assessment tools masks complicated questions about how to measure student progress and ...

Educators discuss what the current administration’s changes to the U.S. Department of Education will mean for schools.

The legal challenge , filed April 10 in federal court in the Southern District of New York, alleges that McMahon’s letter and ...

Ensuring that the skills of America’s workers match the needs of its employers is an urgent task, and one that K-12 schools ...

A federal appeals court overturned a lower court's order that had temporarily restored millions of dollars in terminated ...

The Moms for Liberty University, or M4LU, which is not an accredited university, says its mission is to “inform, equip, and ...

Two separate lawsuits have challenged the Trump administration’s February decision to terminate close to 140 Department of ...